She thought about how in that moment life was perfect because it was simple. One truck, a world asleep, and a million stars. It didn't matter where they were going. She was just existing.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Increasingly–and mirroring what was happening in American politics–Heinlein would attract single - issue or single - novel admirers. Starship Troopers was just the first inkling of this.

To love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects

I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again - can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with...

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

He was intelligent and healthy, but decent to a point that crippled him as a master of his home or an accumulator of wealth. Madelaine had once characterized him as standing on the edge of the...

Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!'

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth - century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold...

What people discard could make a nation

... it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to scrape his anger, no echo for grief, and not the slightest proof...

It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter?

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was...

You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all of the time, and you...

He looked up and caught me staring, and for the first time that morning, neither of us looked away until Erin said, "J - pay attention! Just try to slap me." I broke the stare and turned to her. She...

I opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldn't. If words don't want to come out, they don't. I don't understand when people say things and then...

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to...

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now - a - days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.

You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."